6+ day, 11+ hour ago  (180+ words) Ibiza became part of the Islamic world in the year 902, when it was conquered by the Umayyad Emirate of C'rdoba. Settlement followed rapidly, taking place within little more than a generation, and by the twelfth century the island had developed…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago  (394+ words) We've discussed many times the fact that humans and Neanderthals are so similar that Neanderthals provide no evidence we are closely related to some type of primitive non-human hominid. Now, a new pre-publication paper reviewed by'New Scientist'provides more evidence for…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (225+ words) According to a report in The Korea Herald, Jeong Choong-won of Seoul National University and an international team of researchers conducted a genetic study of 78 individuals buried in 44 tombs in South Korea's Imdang-Joyeong burial complex, which was in use during…...

3+ week, 13+ hour ago  (118+ words) Over 300 generations and the kids never moved away. Launching the kids has been a problem longer than I thought. Neanderthals had Yellow Fever? The only transportation some 120 K years ago would have been limited to walking and for great distances,…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (241+ words) The bow and arrow were first used in western North America some 1, 400 years ago, according to a statement released by PNAS Nexus. Briggs Buchanan of the University of Tulsa and his colleagues radiocarbon dated 136 weapons made of organic materials, which…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (137+ words) Pagan battles before the advent of Christianity. As opposed to the Pax Christiana? As opposed to the Pax Christiana? As opposed to the Pax Christiana? I think you need a new mouse. I was doing a lot of that awhile…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (140+ words) According to a statement released by the Nature Publishing Group, Anopheles leucosphyrus mosquitoes may have evolved to feed on humans in Southeast Asia. Upasana Shyamsunder Singh of Vanderbilt University, Catherine Walton of the University of Manchester, and their colleagues sequenced…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (208+ words) Poland created the bagel. When did the pierogi era start? Or some people traded with hunters for meat? Perhaps some raised animals? OMG! ! Over 3, 000 years there were dietary changes in Poland, amazing! !! !! /sarc Until someone looks, no one knows. /fact…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (154+ words) Awesome" and a little sad too" He died far from home, never saw his loved ones again" There once was a man from Glengozzle Who discovered a remarkable fossil He knew by the bend And the wart at one end…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago  (165+ words) The reevaluation of 16 flint and radiolarite tools found among bear remains in a cave in the Alps suggests that traveling Neanderthals carried the stone tools with them, according to a Phys. org report. Microscopic examination of the tools by Davide…...